Another piece of the March 2011 puzzle:
” An official of Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s nuclear power division
wept at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo as the utility felt it had
exhausted all options to prevent the worst from happening at the
crisis-hit Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in March 2011.
“I’m sorry. We’ve tried many things, but we are in a situation beyond
our control,” Susumu Kawamata, the 54-year-old head of the Nuclear
Quality and Safety Management Department, told industry minister Banri
Kaieda before breaking down.
A government nuclear safety panel member who witnessed the scene
thought it marked the end of one of the most prestigious companies in
Japan.
Shortly after 4 a.m. on March 15, Prime Minister Naoto Kan, 64, was
sitting face to face with TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu, 66, telling
him that the utility does not have the option of withdrawing its people
from the plant, which had already experienced explosions at the Nos. 1
and 3 reactor buildings and was facing fears of a reactor containment
rupture.
It was about eight and a half hours before their meeting that TEPCO’s
top-level officials started considering the evacuation of its employees
from the plant.
At around 7:30 p.m. on March 14, TEPCO’s Managing Director Akio
Komori, who was at an emergency response center set up about 5
kilometers from the plant, started off the discussion at a
teleconference session with the officials at the Tokyo head office.
“If we don’t make a decision at some point, things could get crazy.
Please start setting the criteria for evacuation,” Komori, 58, said.
Executive Vice President Sakae Muto, 60, ordered his subordinates at
the head office to craft an evacuation plan, while Fukushima Daiichi
plant chief Masao Yoshida started arrangements to secure buses.
Procedures to send employees to TEPCO’s Fukushima Daini nuclear power
plant were also being decided.
Shimizu phoned Kaieda, the 62-year-old economy, trade and industry
minister in charge of dealing with the accident, and Chief Cabinet
Secretary Yukio Edano, 46, many times to seek approval of staff
withdrawal, which he called an “evacuation.”
But Shimizu did not say clearly that TEPCO would keep the minimum
necessary number of people inside the plant to monitor the situation and
to continue water injections into the troubled reactors.
Kaieda said he thought TEPCO was seeking a “complete withdrawal” from the plant and had turned down the request from Shimizu.
At around 3 a.m. on March 15 when the condition of the No. 2 reactor
deteriorated, Kaieda decided to ask Kan to make a judgment on the issue.
He woke up the prime minister who was taking a nap on a sofa and
briefed him about the situation.
“If people withdraw, the eastern part of Japan will be destroyed,”
Kan said, rejecting the idea and having Shimizu come over to his office.
As Shimizu stepped inside the reception room on the fifth floor of
the office, Kan immediately said, “I heard that you are thinking about a
withdrawal, but that’s impossible.”
Shimizu’s response was stunning to Haruki Madarame, the 62-year-old
head of the government’s nuclear safety panel who was also attending the
talks. Shimizu said in a thin voice, “We do not have in mind such a
thing as withdrawal.”
Madarame said later, “I thought, what happened to all those talks” about getting workers out?
Officials in the prime minister’s office had misunderstood TEPCO’s
intentions, while the utility’s president was at fault for making
unclear remarks.
The exchanges led Kan to launch an unprecedented accident response
task force in which the government and TEPCO would jointly deal with the
nuclear crisis inside the utility’s head office in Tokyo.
The prime minister told Shimizu he would set up the task force and
that he would go to TEPCO’s head office right away. Shimizu said he
needed about two hours for preparations, but Kan told Shimizu to get it
done in an hour.
Kan was still furious when he arrived at TEPCO headquarters, unable to disguise his distrust of the company.
“TEPCO will go 100 percent bust if it withdraws. You won’t be able to
escape even if you try!” Kan yelled at TEPCO Chairman Tsunehisa
Katsumata, 70, Shimizu and other executives. There were about 200 TEPCO
employees in the same room.
“It doesn’t matter if senior officials in their 60s go to the site
and die. I will also go. President, chairman, make up your minds!” Kan
said.
Kan’s speech continued for more than 10 minutes, which was relayed to
employees inside the emergency response office at the Fukushima Daiichi
plant through a real-time information-sharing teleconference system.
Kan later said he was totally unaware that he had been “yelling at
everyone.” “I might have used strong words to tell them to somehow hang
on until the last minute, but I didn’t mean to scold them.”
Kan was among the many politicians who came to know for the first
time that TEPCO had a teleconference system hooked up to the crisis-hit
plant.
“I was really surprised. There was this huge screen connected to the
Daiichi plant. I wondered why information was coming so slowly to the
prime minister’s office despite the existence of this system,” said Kan,
who had been irritated to learn of the explosion at the No. 1 reactor
building on March 12 from the TV news before TEPCO reported it to the
government.
The joint task force was meant to improve communication between the
government and TEPCO. But Kan would soon realize that it was too late to
stop the crisis that started March 11 from growing more serious.
At the Fukushima Daiichi plant, hundreds of people inside the
emergency response office were glued to the teleconference monitor
showing the angry prime minister.
“Even though we were doing our best here, we felt we were being shot
in the back with a machine gun,” Takeyuki Inagaki, 47-year-old leader of
one of the equipment restoration teams, recalled.
After Kan finished talking, he moved to another room where there was also a monitor to communicate with the plant.
Yoshida, 56, was about to answer a call from the Tokyo office when a
dull sound reached the emergency response office at about 6:14 a.m. The
impact was smaller than that of the two previous explosions, but it was
not an earthquake.
People’s blood ran cold as they heard from reactor operators that the
pressure inside the No. 2 reactor’s suppression chamber, which is
connected to the reactor’s containment vessel, had dropped to zero.
If the chamber was not airtight, a massive amount of highly
radioactive steam could be released outside. Then there would be no safe
place inside the plant, or in surrounding areas.
“The suppression chamber might have got a huge hole. A hell of a lot
of radioactive substances could come out,” Inagaki told Yoshida.
Yoshida instantly decided it was time for evacuation. “source

[SNIP]
Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley
Fischer delivered his first speech on the U.S. and global economy in
Stockholm, Sweden yesterday.

Fischer headed Israel’s central bank
from 2005 through 2013 and is now number two at the Federal Reserve in
the U.S. after Janet Yellen.

In a speech entitled, The Great Recession: Moving Ahead,
given at an event sponsored by the Swedish Ministry of Finance, Fischer
said that the economic recovery has been and remains “disappointing.”

“The
recession that began in the United States in December 2007 ended in
June 2009. But the Great Recession is a near-worldwide phenomenon, with
the consequences of which many advanced economies--among them
Sweden--continue to struggle. Its depth and breadth appear to have
changed the economic environment in many ways and to have left the road
ahead unclear.”
Speaking about the steps that have been taken
internationally in order to “strengthen the financial system” and to
reduce the “probability of future financial crisis,” Fischer said that
the U.S. was preparing proposals for bank bail-ins for “systemically
important banks.” [SNIP]

The joint CDC—Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) paper not only revealed that one in six
children across America suffered from a developmental disability in
2006-2008, but the rate of parent-reported developmental disabilities in
their children had increased 17.1% from 1997 to 2008.

Worse, in the 12-year period, the prevalence of autism increased nearly three hundred percent (289.5%).

Males were twice as likely to suffer from
developmental disabilities as females. The sample size wasn’t small,
either; the study included some 119,367 children.

One in six. That means if you go to just two of your neighbors’ homes
with children, it is very likely that at one of them, you will find at
least one child with a developmental disability. And these figures were
from 2008, so that begs the question: how bad are they now?

And moreover —

What is happening to our children?

The rates of autism have skyrocketed and continue to get worse each year in this country. The CDC now estimates autism effects 1 in 68 children
in the U.S., up a whopping 30% from 2012. For boys, the rate is now 1
in 42. The CDC continues to say genes play a role, but the agency
readily admits it doesn’t know what is causing all this autism.

The prevalence rate for autism before 1990 was only three children per 10,000. When the CDC began surveillance of the study population in 2000, it was one child in every 150. Look at the chart above. Autism just keeps going up.

“Upending the federal government’s approach to regulating toxic
chemicals and putting tough emissions standards in place at power
plants are two good places to start,” said Cook. The federal Toxic
Substances Control Act has allowed the chemical industry to flood the
marketplace with toxic chemicals, including neurotoxins, with virtually
no proof they are safe for people.

While the medical “professionals” keep insisting this drastic increase
is simply due to better detection methods, eventually that won’t hold
water if the autism rates continue to soar as fast as they have
been…unless they just up and decide basically every child is autistic.

Then again, the CDC is currently ignoring a whistleblower
within its own ranks who came forward to admit that the agency
knowingly manipulated data to hide a link in one of its major studies
between the MMR vaccine and autism
— a link which showed a 340% increase in autism specifically in
African American boys given an MMR shot at age three or younger.

The implications of this admission, and the millions of children potentially harmed, is staggering.

Even if you pretend that isn’t happening, America has the most aggressive mandated vaccine schedule in the world. The CDC now recommends up to 37 shots of 14 different vaccinations by the age of two,
prompting the National Vaccine Information Center to ask, “Is the
atypical manipulation of the immune system with more and more vaccines
in early life setting some children up for chronic disease and
disability?”

In short, are our children healthier for it? As disease, auto-immune
disorders, and permanent disabilities continue to trend perilously
upward year after year, the answer is nope, not really.

Parents are expected to continue to shoot their children up no questions asked with a cocktail of antibiotics, formaldehyde, monosodium glutamate (MSG),
bovine fetal tissue, polysorbate and heavy metals like aluminum and
the mercury-containing preservative thimerosal. When these are shot
into the bloodstream, they completely bypass the majority of the body’s
natural immune system which resides in the gut.

A review of compensated cases of vaccine-induced brain injury published in Pace Environmental Law Review
in 2011 found that the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) “has
been compensating cases of vaccine-induced brain damage associated
with autism for more than twenty years” and concluded, “Officials at
HHS, the Department of Justice and the Court of Federal Claims may have
been aware of this association but failed to publicly disclose it.”

The government has quietly paid out millions of dollars to vaccine
victims, but we just continue to shoot more and more of these cocktails
into our tiny children and, increasingly, our pregnant women.

Why not? The pediatric and adolescent vaccine market is set to be worth
over $16 billion by 2016, and no one pushes those shots harder than
the CDC, a well-known revolving door with Big Pharma.

This chart doesn’t even include some of the most egregious examples,
such as the fact that Dr. Julie Gerberding who used to head the CDC from
2002-2009 essentially paved the way for her cushy new job as president
of Merck & Co’s vaccine division when she left the agency (her
2004 presentation to Congress “Prevention of Genital Human Papillomavirus Infection” set the stage for Merck’s multi-billion-dollar HPV vaccine to be approved, fancy that).

It isn’t hard to see where the mutually beneficial arrangement between
CDC and Big Pharma would keep the agency pointing its finger at
anything other than the products its pushing.

Our children are being damaged en masse in this country, but none
of these so-called medical experts running the show can seem to figure
out why? The alarming rise in autism and developmental disabilities in
this country are just such a great “mystery,” right?

Parents are supposed to make a choice between giving shots for rare
diseases the child may not even ever get anyway (polio was eradicated
here in 1985) but face the 1 in 68 (1 in 42 for boys) chance that those
shots may cause autism?

Isn’t it Occam’s Razor that says the simplest, most obvious answer is often the right one?

Sheeple

The Black Sheep tries to warn its friends with the truth it has seen, unfortunately herd mentality kicks in for the Sheeple, and they run in fear from the black sheep and keep to the safety of their flock.

Having tried to no avail to awaken his peers, the Black Sheep have no other choice but to unite with each other and escape the impending doom.

What color Sheep are you?

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